Hi,
This paragraph has been considerably changed:
In particular, working groups will sometimes write in policies such
as Standards Action when they develop documents. Later, someone will
come to the working group (or to the relevant community, if the
working group has since closed) with a simple request to register a
new item, and will be met with a feeling that it's not worth doing a
Standards-Track RFC for something so trivial. In such cases, it was
a mistake for the working group to have set the bar that high.
I object strongly to the last sentence. The fact that a person feels
it isn't worth the trouble to develop a standards-track document for
their new idea does not imply that the WG was wrong. It may equally
be true that the "simple request" is not simple at all in its
consequences, and absolutely does require standards action, and the WG
made no mistake whatever. Please see RFC 6709 for a full discussion.
Brian